Necktie-retainer.



No. 634,957. 1 Patented Oct. l7, I899. G. QUICK.

NEGKTIE RETAINER.

(Application filed Nov. 11, 1898.)

(No Model.)

llnrrnn TATES Arnnr GRANT QUICK, OF PLIMPTON, OHIO.

NECKTIE RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,957, dated October 1'7, 1899.

Application filed November 11, 1898. Serial No. 696,188. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GRANT QUICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plimpton, in the county of Holmes and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Aluminium Necktie-Retainer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to necktie-retainers, and has for its object to provide a device of this nature which will be simple and cheap of construction, easy of adjustment, and which, moreover, will operate effectively to prevent riding of the necktie upon the collar.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like letters of ref erence indicate similar parts in both views- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my retainer in position on acollar, the position of the necktie being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a View similar to Fig. 1, showing the position of the retainer in the first position when being applied-to the collar-button.

Referring now to the drawings, in operating in accordance with my invention I form a rectangular blank, though the corners-may be rounded, if desired, and in this blank I punch or otherwise form a slot b, which slot begins substantially midway of the ends of the blank and is continued in the direction of one end thereof for a suitable distance, when it is terminated in an elliptical opening 0, the major diameter of which lies at right angles across the slot 1) and projects beyond the edges thereof. The blank (1 is then bent substantially on the line of a tangent of the elliptical opening at right angles to the slot b and again near its opposite end on a line substantially the same distance from said end as is the line of the first bend from its adjacent end. The result is two inwardly-curved ends (I and 0, one of which is imperforate and the'other of which contains the elliptical opening a, both ends lying substantially parallel with the body containing the slot 6.

In the manipulation of my device it is so held that the end 01 will receive in its perforation the head of the collar-button at the back of the shirt, as shown in Fig. 1. The upper end of the retainer is then swung outwardly and the other end is slid upwardly until it assumes the position shown in Fig. 2, after which the tie is passed therethrough, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. It will thus be seen that when the tie is in place it cannot ride up and over the collar nor can it drop from its place.

It will of course be understood that I may make my device of any desired material and that also I may vary the dimensions thereof without departing from the spirit of my invent-ion.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- A necktie-retainer comprising a plate hav-' GRANT QUICK.

Witnesses:

T. O. WEERs, J. QUICK. 

